8.15.2008

random comment to kick around

I put this comment through moderation, but as the commenter (no profile available) left it on a three-year-old post, I thought I'd highlight it here.
Well now that you've been there 3 years, you sound like the CBC, full of praising the country and how diverse it is. That's bull.

I'm a lifelong resident of BC and am moving South to get out of the socialist hell-hole where you can't get a 3 bd house for under a mil. Diversity is fine, but we should take immigrants from all countries, not just china and pakistan - well out west its that way.

Remember that this is a country that refused to take Jews during WW2 thanks to Mackenzie King, and here in BC the Japanese were put in concentration camps.

Finally, how cliche is it to move to Toronto out of any other Canadian city - real Canadians know the 416 is just an ugly landscape of factories. Live in Vancouver or Quebec City for two totally different lifestyles.

I'm not dissing you, I just think your blog is very one-sided, please, we have enough limousine liberals in this country as it is, and be proud of your great hometown.

My reply:

My blog is one-sided: my side only.

Of course Canada has terrible things in its history! It was part of the British empire, for chrissakes. And it's a country, made of people, so of course it has horrors and makes mistakes. But I don't live in that history, I live in the present.

And you're concerned about the evils in Canada's past, so you're moving to the US? Hmm, no evils in that past, uh-uh!

How "cliche" is it to move to Toronto? Like most people, I moved to where I could get work. I also moved to where we'd have ML baseball, and be relatively close to our family, especially my mother. Toronto is a good fit for me. Should I not move to the city of my choice because some stranger on the internet thinks it's a "cliche"?

Just FYI, the other US-to-Canada immigrants I know have moved to: Fredericton, Saskatoon, Vancouver, Victoria, Halifax, Windsor, Kingston and a few other places. And some to the GTA - because it worked for them.

Yes, of course there are different lifestyles in Vancouver or Quebec City. It's a big country. Different lifestyles in different places. I'm pretty sure I never said otherwise.

I happen to really like Toronto and Mississauga. What can I tell you? If you don't, no one's forcing you to live here. But if you think I'm a limousine liberal, you haven't actually been reading wmtc. No limousines for me: I take the bus. I'm a working class person, and NDP.

Thanks for your thoughts, but if all you have to say is "your blog is one-sided, you don't sound like me, you sound like you", you can keep the next post to yourself.

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Socialist hell-hole? I wish!

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